Agree.
and the vast human tragedy, things like throwing an Afghanistan woman onto a fire and burning her to death because she was a bad cook, forcing 15-year-old girls into a life of sex slavery, commonly beheading people who you think disagree with you etc, Is now set in motion until some thing or someone puts a stop to it.
not to mention it was before and will again be a breeding ground funding station and training area for people who want to end western civilization as we know it.
You can talk about the high cost of the 20 years we spent there, but a great argument could be made that the cost is going to go up substantially not only in money and resources but in human lives and in human tragedy.
This is just dead wrong on so many levels, don't know where to begin. There are a lot of terrible governments and atrocities in the world- the US doesn't intervene everywhere on humanitarian grounds. In fact- we hardly ever do. We are not the worlds police. The world doesn't belong to us either.
If you want to go on and on about women's rights and terror- one of our closest allies- the Saudi's- have a government as repressive as the Taliban- and Saudi Arabia is literally ground zero for Muslim Extremism/Terrorism.
Afghanistan was not some breeding ground for terror. It's true that Osama Bin Laden and his followers (A SAUDI NATIONAL- 99% OF WHOM WERE ALSO SAUDI) was given safe harbor there- but it's not because they agreed with his mission or cause. They gave him and his followers safe harbor because Bin Laden had helped Taliban leaders and their predecessors fight off the Soviets. These people were US backed intelligence assets for 10 years from '79 to '89 - funding, training, and arming them. We had a hand in creating these people with our meddling during those 10 years.
If you'll remember- the US demanded that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden, no negotiations, no questions asked. The Taliban asked for the US gov't to present to them evidence that Bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks, and they will consider handing him over. The US refused to share any evidence, decided to invade & bomb- and they demanded the Taliban hand him over or the bombings will continue. Well- they never handed him over and the war aims changed to- we will continue to bomb you until you change your government leadership. This is textbook definition of an illegal war. The stated aim was to go into Afghanistan and capture Bin Laden and dismantle Al-Qaeda. Not to change the government of Afghanistan. We should've never went in there in the first place- but as soon the US captured or killed most of Al-Qaeda and it's leadership and drove Bin Laden out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan- we should've left. We didn't. Instead, what did our dumbasses do? Stay there another 18 years and spend trillions of dollars.
We had to go. Point blank period. We had no business staying there another second let alone another 20 years.
